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SOLOMOL MANTLE, JOHN MANTLE, AND CHARLES MANTLE, OF PENFIELD,

. ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,190, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed October 4, 1888.

To all whom it inag woncern:

Be it known that we, SOLOMON MANTLE, JOHN MANTLE, and CHARLES MANTLE,citi- Zens of the United States of America, residing at Penfield, in thecounty of Ohampaign and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in \Vashing- Machines and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements inwashing-machines.

The essential feature of this invention consists in the use of verticallreciprocating pounders in connection with side oscillating rubbers.

Our invention consists in the construction and combination of, certainmechanical devices, as will be more fully hereinafter described. andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings we have illustrated our invention, likeletters of reference being used to designate similar parts in theseveral views; and therein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our i1nproved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of thesame. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof.

A indicates the washing'box supported by legs A The said box has twouprights, A secured to the central. part of two sides thereof, extendingup above the top. To the rear side of said box another upright, A, issecured, and projects a short distance above the top of the box and hasits upper end. slotted.

On the top ends of the uprights Aa crankshaft, B, is secured bystrap-boxes u, or any other form of box may be used, if desired. The oneend of said shaft is bent to form an operatinghandle, and between theuprights cranks b and Z) are formed therein, the crank b being ofgreater depth than the other two cranks, b. To the said cranks Z; and bpitinen B are connected, and have their lower ends mortised to receivetenons on the upper Serial No. 287,141. (No model.)

ends of posts G. A pivot-pin is passed through each mortise and tenon,and a hinged joint is thereby formed. The uprights C have pounders Oattached to the lower ends thereof. The said poundcrs are verticallyreciprocated by the crank-shaft B, the central pounder being depressed,while the ones on each side thereof are raised, as fully shown in Fig.3.

The washing-box has a supplemental raised bottom, G, having perforationsg therein, and the lower part of one end thereof is provided with adrain openin (L2, made regulable by an exterior cutoff, a Within saidbox uprights F are mounted, and have downwardlycurved slots f therein toreceive gudgeonsf on the sides of oscillating ribbed rubbers E. Thepounders 0 work between the rubbers F, asshmvn in Fig. 3.

In the upper slotted end of the uprights A a disk -wheel, D, is mounted,and is given a semi-rotary movement by a pitman, D, attaohed thereto andto the central crank, b, of the shaft B. From the front side of theupright A an arm, D projects outwardly at right angles, and has asemirotary disk-wheel, E, mounted on the end thereof at right angles towheel D. The wheel D is connected to wheel E by a pitma-n, D The wheel Ehas pitmen E attached thereto at one end at different elevations, and attheir opposite ends the said pitmen are attached to the top part of oneend of each of the rubbers F.

By operating the crank-shaft B the pounders O are verticallyreciprooated, as hereinafter set forth, and at the same time the wheel Dis given a semi-rotary movement by pitman D, and said motion is impartedto wheel E by pitma-n D which in time alternately draws the rubbers Finward toward or outward away from each other through the pit-men E. Therear of box A is open to permit free action of the pitmen E, and isalsoprovided with a removable cover, A, having guide-strips a, adaptedto fit over a top board, A

The clothes are placed in the machine and the pounders force the sameupward and downward, due to the alternate motion thereof. The rubbers Foscillate inward and outward and the clothes are forced against theribbed surfaces thereof and cleansed. The

said rubbers also press the clothes inward toward the center, to bethereby more effectually acted upon by the pounders.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a Washing-machine, the combination or" the washing-box havinguprights, the crankshaft, the vertically-reciprocating pounders attachedto the crank-shaft, the semi-rotary disk-Wheels connected to thecrank-shaft and to each other by pitmen, and the side oscillatingrubbers connected to one of said diskwheels by pitlnen, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination, with the pounders and rubbers,of the crankshaft and disk-wheels, one of which is mounted at rightangles to the other, and pitmen connecting the crank-shaft to the upperdisk, the disks to each other, and the rubbers to the lower disk,substantially as described.

3. In a washing-machine, the combination of a washing-box havinguprights, the crankshaft having depending pitmen with mortised ends,vertically-reciprocating pounders having posts with upper tenoned endsadapted to fit into the Inortised ends of the depending pitnian andforming a hinged joint therewith, the reversely-situated semi-rotarydisk-wheels connected to the crank-shaft and to each other by pitlnen,the oscillating ribbed rubbers having gudgeons working in curved slotsin strips mounted in the Washing-box, and the pitmen connecting saidrubbers with one of the diskwheels, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

SOLOMON MANTLE. JOHN 'MANTLE. CHARLES MANTLE.

WVitnesses:

T. J. CAMPBELL, GEO. W. SHARP.

